The Birthday Party! Nobody ever mentions The Birthday Party. They were great. My first copy having been destroyed I have recently been trying to find “(Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn” somewhere. Which, come to think of it, would be very appropriate for when the world ends and I shuffle off to my inevitable damnation.
But my first thought was Foetus. "Anything (Viva!) or maybe “Satan Place”.
What Apocalypse would be complete without some Leonard Cohen? How about ‘The Future’?
*You don’t know me from the wind;
Ya never will, ya never did—
I’m the little Jew who wrote the Bible.
I’ve seen the Nations rise and fall.
I’ve heard their stories, heard them all
But love’s the only engine of survival.
Your servant here, he has been told
To say it clear, to say it cold:
“It’s over, it aint goin’ any further.”
And now the wheels of Heaven stop
You feel the Devil’s riding crop.
Get ready for the future;
It is murder.*